Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

- Peter De Vries

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

10.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

11.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

12.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

13.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

14.

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

15.

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

16.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

17.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

21.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

30.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

34.

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

43.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

44.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

45.

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder